# CVE-2025-2586: Ols: unauthenticated metrics flooding in openshift lightspeed service leading to resource exhaustion

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2025-03-31 · Updated: 2026-10-15

## Affected

- lightspeed-service: fixed in 88f9dc91856593d878b60ad9a67ffee8d4621ba5
- openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the OpenShift Lightspeed Service, which is vulnerable to unauthenticated API request flooding. Repeated queries to non-existent endpoints inflate metrics storage and processing, consuming excessive resources. This issue can lead to monitoring system degradation, increased disk usage, and potential service unavailability. Since the issue does not require authentication, an external attacker can exhaust CPU, RAM, and disk space, impacting both application and cluster stability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lightspeed-service, openshift-lightspeed-tech-preview/lightspeed-service-api-rhel9, apply the referenced fix per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2586
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2353998
- https://github.com/openshift/lightspeed-service/pull/2369

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